Disclaimer: Gundam Wing Characters do not belong to me . . . . Original Characters are mine and mine alone.

Author Notes: Sorry about the delay. I've been exceedingly busy. School and all. But, I'm back and here's the next chapter to the story. And I'll give you a hint on what's going to happen. Solo and Zero meet.
Chapter Two:

August 4th / 207 AC . . . .

Dusha Palace, Dusha Kingdom . . . .

Heero (Yuy) Silvercraft entered his eldest son's bedroom. The small twelve-year-old was sitting on the window sit, still dressed in his night clothes. "Solo?" Heero inquired. The boy had regained consciousness in the early morning hours, relieving all of his family members. Icy Amethyst eyes looked up into Cobalt Blue eyes before looking back out the window. "Solo?"

"She's coming . . . I can feel her" Solo whispered. He looked back up to his father. "Poppa, what's wrong with me?" Heero was at a lost, he couldn't answer. Solo looked away. "I'm a freak, aren't I? I heard many of the whispers of the royals in the court. Saying how unnatural it was for my empathic skills to be as strong as they are. And I'm Earth-born, I shouldn't have this curse". Heero sat down and grasped his son's face, so it was looking at him.

"You're aren't a freak, Solo" Heero replied. "And what you have been given is a very special gift, it isn't a curse. Does Quatre see it as a curse?" Solo shook his head, no. "Then why should you?"

"Why shouldn't I? Cousin Quatre doesn't have the pleasure of knowing that his own family is . . . ." Solo immediately shut up. Heero frowned.

"What do you mean, Solo?"

"Nothing . . . I shouldn't have said anything" Solo replied, quickly. He climbed off the window seat and walked over to his closet. "Poppa, it's nothing". He couldn't feel that his father didn't believe him. "Honest".

"Solo . . ." Heero started.

Solo shook his head and pulled off his night clothes, he pulled on some clothes. "Don't try, Poppa" said Solo. He walked over and touched his father's chest, his hand resting over his father's heart. "I know when people are lying . . . So, you really can't try to". With that the twelve- year-old left. Heero sighed and looked out of the window. He didn't have the gifts that his wife, son or Cousin-in-law had but he could feel that something wasn't right.

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Solo sighed and leaned against the wall. He was once again in the Library. He looked around, pushing his glasses up on his nose. The only place that he didn't heard the constant whispers of the Royals. He made his way into the library. He loved to read and to learn, something that wasn't really in either of his parents. Oh, don't get him wrong, both his parents loved to read and learn but it wasn't as strong or inherit in them as it was in Solo. He sighed and sat down. "You can come out of the shadows, you know" Solo said. He threw a look over his shoulder, "I know you're there, anyway". Two soldiers emerged, slightly shock that a child barely thirteen could detect them. "Your here on her orders, are you?"

Either soldier spoke. Solo raised an eyebrow when something struck him in the back of his head and he crumpled to the ground. The soldier from behind hoisted the boy into his arms. "Target acquired" spoked one of the soldiers into a transmitter. "Returning to base". The trio made their way, silently, through the castle. Unbeknownst to the soldiers, another figure tracked them throughout the shadows.

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The soldiers stood on the outside of the palace when suddenly one of their numbers fell, dead, to the ground. "Wha---- ?!" The unconscious Solo was whisked out of the lead soldier's arms. The two turned to see a youth of sixteen years, holding on to the Empathic prince. Slowly, Ice amethyst eyes opened and looked up into the fair skinned face of his rescuer. Solo blinked. The teenager was strange but not unwelcomed. He had just saved Solo from a very much possible death. The young prince blushed at the way his savior was holding him. In the way, a Knight would carry a damsel in distress.

The saviour's strange ruby red eyes glared at Solo's attackers. Solo was set down, as a gun was drawn out of nowhere. Solo was held close against the other's body. He turned crimson. "I suggest you leave" said the teenager. His voice was blank and monotone. The two, living, Soldiers looked at one another then turned tail and ran.

Solo looked up at the, clearly, elder boy, as he was set free of the strong embrace. "Ah . . . Thank you" Solo replied. The teenager nodded and turned to leave but Solo stopped him by grabbing his arm. "Won't you stay? Please? My parents will want to thank you for saving me". The teenager looked apprehensive but with Solo's pleading ice amethyst eyes, he relented. Solo grasped the teenager's fair-skiined hand and tugged him toward the Palace. The teenager followed. "I'm Solo . . . Solo Silvercraft, by the way . . . .But you probaby already knew that".

"I did".

"What's yours? Your name, I mean?"

"It's Zero" came the reply. Ruby red eyes studied the scenery, taking in everything around him. "What's going on?"

"Huh? Oh, it's the Festival of Lights and my Parents Seventh Year Anniversary" Solo replied. "So you can imagine the chaos". Zero nodded. He follwed Solo, obediently, through the hallwas of the palace. "I believe Momma and Poppa would be in the throne room". They took a right then a left and soon stood at two large silver doors.

Solo reached forward and the doors opened. Solo waked through, tugging Zero behind him. "Momma? Poppa?" Both the King and Queen plus several other family members loked up and stared. Solo smiled, he shoved Zero toward his parents. "This is Zero . . . He saved me from some strange red-garb Soldiers".

"WHAT?!" Duo cried. She rushed over and scooped the rather petite pre- teen in her arms. "Are you alright? You're not hurt in any way?"

"He is not, Your Majesty" Zero replied. "I stopped them from going that far". Duo turned and smiled at Zero.

"Then I own you my gratitude for saving my son and hier" Duo said. Zero bowed and with that he left. Solo slipped from his mother's grasp and ran after the elder boy. The Queen smiled, alknowingly. While Heero fumed in the background. Everyone else, simply, stared. They were unable to take in the event.

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"Are you going to stay for the Festival, Zero?"

"I told you I would, didn't I?" Solo smiled and sat down in front of the sixteen-year-old. He gazed up at Zero, who showed no emotion. (AN: Kinda like a certain something, until another certain someone got her hands on hom, hmmm?)

"Don't you ever smile?" Solo inquired. (AN: Blunt, isn't he?)

"I don't do emotions. (AN: *Cough* Heero *Coughcough*. Death glare is pointed at the author).

Solo reached up and made Zero's mouth tun upwards into a smile. "You got a very pretty smile, Zero". The elder boy tinged pink and turned away. Solo giggled at his newfound friend's shyness. He sat back down and stared up at the clouds, passing over head. "You something, Zero" Solo started. "I may have known you only a few minutes but it seems as though I've known you most of my life . . . isn't that strange?"

"You're an empath . . . are you not?" Zero said. "You feel things that the mundane could never and would never feel nor understand. It's merely in your nature to know things before others". Solo cocked his head to the side then looked back up at the sky.

"Many people wouldn't hold your open-mindedness, Zero" Solo said. "I'm a Earth-Born prince born into a family of Latent Empaths, save for my Cousin-in-law Quatre Raberba Winner-Silvercraft. They consider my gift of emotion and knowledge a rather freakish curse". Solo sighed and fell backwards onto the grass, he pushed his glasses up onto his nose. "And because of gifts, I haven't been able to have a friend outside of my family".

"Don't listen to those people" Zero replied. "They know nothing of the world around, only what is in their small country. You should not hold their opinions of you so highly in your mind". Solo looked up at Zero. He was basically telling him what his father had already said to him that morning. Solo raised an eyebrow but said nothing more. He looked up at the sky. "And people like that are people, you should make friends with".

"Would I consider you a friend, Zero?" Solo inquried. Ice amethyst met with Ruby red. Both boys blushed but held each other's gaze, steadily.

"If you want" Zero replied. He was feeling slightly uncomfortable with the young prince. He looked away, he rested backwards looking up at the sky. Solo curled closer to the elder boy. His head resting on the boy's shoulder.

"Thank you".
And chapter two is finished. No thanks to some two-bit muse. *Glares at Heero *.

Heero: You're testing my temper, Onna.

You sound like Wuffei, Heero.

*Off stage* ONNA!!!! BAKA YAROU!!!!

Love you too, WUFFEI!!!!

Duo to Quatre: She's going to get herself killed by those two.

Solo: Poppa, be nice to Artemis-Sama. She did after all find a way that you could be with Momma, didn't she?

*Hugs Solo* I knew there was a reason I love you, Solo!! Anyway, Review!!! And Flames will be used to torture Relena to death. *Evil Grin* BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!